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iTunes Match allows users to upload their non-iTunes purchases to the cloud for easy access on multiple computers and iOS devices. Apple told us that the feature would be live by the end of October, but as of mid-November, iTunes Match is still unavailable to regular users.

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It's not much of a stretch to imagine Apple creating a personalized streaming music service in the style of Pandora, something the company is reportedly investigating. The company already has Pandora-like technology in the form of its tune-matching f...

If you signed up for the $25-a-year Apple service iTunes Match, which lets you access your entire iTunes library on the fly from your iPhone or iPad, you may have noticed one major flaw: iTunes Match killed Genius. Well rejoice, for Genius has been r...

Apple is unintentionally censoring rap music and other explicit tracks downloaded using its iTunes Match service -- by replacing them with the clean versions of the same songs. According to a report in Cult of Mac -- confirmed in tests by Mashable --...

Although Apple’s music matching service has already launched for most regions, most people don’t fully understand how it works. Because of the outcry of users who don’t understand it, Apple recently added an iTunes Match how-to section to its site. T...

Looking for an inexpensive way to treat yourself this holiday season? Amazon, Apple and Google might have what you desire with deals on albums and singles. The limited-time deals vary depending on the company, and the discounted MP3s could be nice ad...

iTunes Match, Apple's service which allows users to access their music library - including non-iTunes songs - from Apple's cloud, has started rolling out internationally, TUAW reports. Users are reporting the service going live in the UK, Australia, ...

It's been a huge week for digital music lockers. First Apple made iTunes Match available to U.S. customers, then Google Music launched. These two services are competing with with Amazon's Cloud Player (which is integrated with the new Kindle Fire) in...

Google introduced Google Music to the public at its Android event in Los Angeles Wednesday afternoon. The service originally launched at Google I/O in May as Google Music Beta. It launches as a complete suite of music services -- including a Music St...

After our initial Kindle Fire review, we wanted to take a closer look at how Amazon's new tablet compares with the iPad 2 as a media consumption device. Like Apple, Amazon has paired the Kindle Fire with a complete end-to-end media solution. Users ca...

iTunes Match is now available and ready for sign-ups. Apple introduced the service back at WWDC 2011; it's a way to access all your iTunes music via the cloud, for a fee. Similar to Amazon's Cloud Player and Google Music, iTunes Match offers users th...

Apple's long-touted iTunes Match is finally available. Users can access it by downloading the iTunes 10.5.1 update. iTunes Match was announced alongside iCloud at WWDC in June. The service allows users to upload up to 25,000 non-iTunes songs to Apple...

A Spanish-language blog has leaked what are purported to be screenshots from the new Google Music Store, a service that the company may announce on Wednesday. The blog, TechnoDroidVe, appears to be based in Venezuela. Its authors claim they got acces...

Along with an early build of iOS 5.0.1, Apple has provided developers with an updated version of iTunes 10.5.1 that is compatible with its upcoming iTunes Match service. When iOS 5 arrived last month, it included a slew of new cloud-based features, b...

The beta for iTunes Match, Apple's service for bringing all of your music to iCloud, has been released to developers. The service is part of the release of iTunes 10.5 beta 6.1. iTunes Match scans a user's music and finds copies of those songs in iCl...

Apple unveiled a heaping helping of news at WWDC 2011, the Apple developers’ conference, on Monday. And, as always when innovations come to light, we've been thinking about what preexisting services would be disrupted. From its camera to the cloud, A...

At WWDC 2011, Steve Jobs unveiled iTunes in the Cloud and "one more thing" goodie iTunes Match, a move that TuneCore CEO and founder Jeff Price believes will monetize piracy and reset the music industry. iTunes in the Cloud will allow users to downlo...

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